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The next day, December 7 will be held at the Ermita de la Diputación de Aguadero the V Edition of Traditional Folklore Contest "Campo de Lorca", which has national character and will feature the participation of five teams.

In the presentation ceremony held in the Board of Councils of the City of Lorca, have been present Edil de Cultura, Rosa Medina and the President of the Gang of watering places, Pedro Sánchez Moreno, whose group is the organizer of the event.

Rosa Medina wanted to highlight that "the event is a living example of social participation and maintenance of traditional culture and come together here from people who want to start dancing spontaneously about partying, one jot or sing a greater either Malaga or young people who want to continue with tradition and are going to join gangs. "

The Councillor for Culture and Celebrations, also added that "if we go back to the origins of this festival comes to a meeting of gang held for fourteen years in the parish hall of watering places and always performed the following Saturday after Epiphany ".

For its part Pedro Sánchez Moreno has been reported that "the current full-time format that meets this 2008 fifth edition is organized entirely by the crew of watering places, but has the estimable collaboration of the two other associations such as the Association hamlet Residents and the Association of women as if they would be very difficult to achieve it. "

The President of the watering places Gang pointed out that "the contest is national and that groups have gone Aguadero Alicante, Murcia, Almería, Albacete, Granada and Malaga Cuenca. The groups participating in this edition will be the Campbell Gang , Grandma's crew Santa Ana (Albacete), Gang Zarzadilla basement, Caravaca and Panda Animeros Verdiales San Lorenzo Valley Abdalajis Martyr (Málaga).

Since the first edition, the organization joined a group event Fol., Fit perfectly every time another kind of traditional music instruments, the group being invited this year remains Ixo Asti, the Sierra de Gudar (Teruel). "

Parallel to the event will offer small samples of local handicrafts such as esparto and gastronomy as the development in the Moorish oven of the shrine of the famous homemade bread and cakes for Easter.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca